“We were uniquely positioned through our ISCC certified UCO collections and processing network to provide full traceability of the renewable content in support of this circular economy initiative.”
“We were uniquely positioned through our ISCC certified UCO collections and processing network to provide full traceability of the renewable content in support of this circular economy initiative.”
In a win for the circular economy, Viva Energy and Intersnack ANZ are set to make new plastic snack packaging from used cooking oil collected by Cleanaway.
Viva Energy produced its first ISCC PLUS certified mass balanced bio-based polymer following the successful processing of a batch of used cooking oil (UCO) at its Geelong refinery. It is the first time UCO has been used to create bio-based polymers through Viva Energy’s catalytic cracker and adjacent polypropylene plant.
We supported this milestone project by collecting UCO from Intersnack’s NSW facility where it had been used to cook some of Australia’s favourite snacks, and then processing it at our Riverstone site to remove water and impurities before delivering it to Viva Energy’s Geelong Refinery for further processing.
“We were uniquely positioned through our ISCC certified UCO collections and processing network to provide full traceability of the renewable content in support of this circular economy initiative.” said Jeroen Wassenaar, Head of Innovation at Cleanaway.
Intersnack ANZ is set to close the loop on UCO by using this recycled food-grade plastic to create plastic packaging for some of its products later this year.
Pictured: How Cleanaway is working with Viva Energy and Intersnack ANZ to turn used cooking oil into new plastic snack packets.
About ISCC PLUS
International Sustainability and Carbon Certification PLUS is a voluntary certification scheme designed to validate sustainability characteristics of alternative feedstocks. The UCO to bio-based plastic process is certified through International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC+) to give customers transparency on the renewable feedstock content in the plastic. Cleanaway’s collection and processing facilities are ISCC EU certified, which is recognised under ISCC PLUS and provides complete traceability for the process. Viva Energy uses this internationally recognised certification to track the amount of sustainable materials, in this case UCO, being processed through the Geelong Refinery. The sustainable materials are then allocated to the end product even if the UCO has been mixed with traditional hydrocarbons during processing. A sustainability declaration is provided to Intersnack ANZ to certify the use of the sustainable materials. This approach is called mass balance free attribution and allows companies to claim that their products contain a certain percentage of sustainable materials, based on careful bookkeeping, without needing to physically separate the molecules.